Top Ten Nonfiction Reads of 2025

I'm linking up with That Artsy Reader Girl for another Top Ten Tuesday.

Last week, I shared my favorite fiction reads of 2025. Here are my top ten nonfiction reads from the year!

To read more about why I liked these nonfiction books, you can search for them on the blog or check out my Goodreads. (To see my favorite read every month with a detailed description of why I liked it, I encourage you to check out — and link up with — the Best of the Bunch linkup.)

1. Come as You Are by Emily Nagoski

2. Do You Still Talk to Grandma? by Brit Barron

3. Enough by Tiffany North

4. How to Keep House While Drowning by KC Davis

5. More Than Two (second edition) by Eve Rickert and Andrea Zanin

6. One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad

7. The Only Plane in the Sky by Garrett M. Graff

8. Unfit Parent by Jessica Slice

9. What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat by Aubrey Gordon

10. Who Deserves Your Love by KC Davis

What great nonfiction did you read this year?

Looking back:
One year ago I was reading: Chain-Gang All-Stars, More Than Two, Bad Blood, and Big Jim Begins
Five years ago I was reading: Autobiography of a Face, The Baby Signing Book, and Feminist, Queer, Crip
Ten years ago I was reading: Lonesome Dove, The Quran, and Middlemarch

Top Ten Fiction Reads of 2025

I'm linking up with That Artsy Reader Girl for another Top Ten Tuesday.

As I've done the past few years, I'm splitting up my favorite fiction and nonfiction of the year, sharing my top ten fiction reads this week and my nonfiction picks next week.

I'm cheating a bit by including several series as single entities, just to give a more accurate picture of my reading year. I don't usually include sequels, but I included two romances (#1 and #2) that can be read as standalone novels, though I still highly recommend reading the first books for the full experience. I also included one (#10) that is fictionalized but based on the true story of co-author Mohamed's life.

To read more about why I liked these fiction books, you can search for them on the blog or check out my Goodreads. (To see my favorite read every month with a detailed description of why I liked it, I encourage you to check out — and link up with — the Best of the Bunch linkup.)

1. Amelia, If Only by Becky Albertalli

2. It Had to Be Him by Adib Khorram

3. Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus

4. The Mistborn trilogy by Brandon Sanderson

5. A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness

6. Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler

7. The Penderwicks series by Jeanne Birdsall

8. Stella by Starlight by Sharon M. Draper

9. The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna

10. When Stars Are Scattered by Victoria Jamieson and Omar Mohamed

What great fiction did you read this year?

Looking back:
One year ago I was reading: Only Love Today, As You Wish, More Than Two, and Nothing to Fear
Five years ago I was reading: Strangers from a Different Shore and Feminist, Queer, Crip
Ten years ago I was reading: Jesus Calling, Lonesome Dove, The Quran, and Middlemarch